Meaning of DISOBEDIENT
| Pronunciation: | | `disu'beedeeunt
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- [adj] not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
- [adj] unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
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| | Synonyms: | | contrary, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, obstinate, perverse, recusant, refractory, self-willed, unruly, wayward, wilful, willful |
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| | Antonyms: | | obedient | | |
| | See Also: | | bad, defiant, incorrigible, intractable, noncompliant, stubborn, unmanageable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`o*be"di*ent\, a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See
{Disobey}, {Obedient}.]
1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is
commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not
observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; --
applied to persons and acts.
This disobedient spirit in the colonies. --Burke.
Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. --1 Kings
xiii. 26.
2. Not yielding.
Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten
life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the
system disobedient to stimuli. --E. Darwin.
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| | Related Terms: | | anarchic, at odds, averse, bad, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, cursory, deaf to, declinatory, defiant, delinquent, derelict, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disregardful, forced, fractious, froward, headstrong, heady, ill-behaved, incompliant, indisciplined, indisposed, indocile, insubordinate, intractable, involuntary, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mischievous, mutinous, naughty, negative, nonconforming, nonconsenting, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, opposed, perfunctory, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, rejective, remiss, resistant, revolting, self-willed, stubborn, sulky, sullen, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconsenting, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, unwilling, violative, wayward, wildcat, willful |
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